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HUGO GUENTHERL Improvement in Knitting Machines No. 124,950. Paten tedMarch 26,1872;

UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIcE.

HUGO GUENTHEB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNITTING-MACHINES.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 124,950, dated March Q6,1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Knitting-Machine, inventedby HUGO GUEN- THEE, of the city, county,- and State of New York.

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The invention relates to the Lamb or othe knitting-machines, andconsists in providing the needles with detachable shanks, which, as wellas the needles, are constructed as hereinafter fully described, andpointed out in claim.

A, in the drawing, represents the stationary supporting frame of themachine. B is the reciprocating frame, carrying the cams, whereby theneedles are moved. The inclined surfaces of the frame A are groovedtransversely for the reception of the needles 0. These needles are madeat their outer ends with turnedup ears, as at a in Figs. 2 and 3, whileheretofore they had doubled projecting ears I), as in the right-handside of Fig. 2. The ears 11 fitted the grooves of the cams, asheretofore mentioned. The ears a are not long enough I to project fromthe grooves of the bed A, as

indicated, and the needles alone, when having such ears (0 cannot bemoved by said cams. D

D are the detachable shanks, which I have provided for the needleswithout the ears 1). Every shank D is a rod or wire, with its outer orupper end doubled into a projecting hook, d, which, when hooked over theprojecting end a of the needle, will constitute the lug or ear that isset inmotion by the cams. The shank D fits at its outer part through aslot of the frame A, as shown in Fig. 2. E E are springs applied underthe outer parts of the shanks D, serving to hold the hooks at over theears a, and to produce friction for keeping the needles and shanks inposition.

When a needle is connected with its shank D, in the manner shown in Fig.2, it will be moved back and forth inthe requisite manner for knittingwhenever reciprocating motion is imparted to the frame B. When, however,a

needle is to be thrown out of action without being disengaged from themesh or loop hanging on it, the shank D is by hand swung down so as toraise the hook d clear off the ear a, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3, andthe shank is then drawn back out of the way of the cam. This leaves theneedle where it was, but throws it entirely out of action. It canreadily be again thrown into action by replacing the hook d over the eara.

F, in Fig. 1, is the comb for stretching the commencement of the footpart of a stocking after a narrow-heel connection, G, has been knit. Theupper part of this comb is substantially of ordinary construction,consisting of upright wires 0 6, with closed loops at their upper ends,and of a wire, f, drawn through said loops. The lower plate g, to whichthe wires e e are attached, has, however, perforated ears h h at theends, as shown, for the reception of weights 11 that will straddle theleg part I of the stocking. Instead of having a separate weight at eachend of the comb F, the two ears h may receive the ends of a forked wireor frame, from which but one weight is suspended.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The shank D, provided with hook d, in combinationwith needle 0, having the short upturned ear a, as and for the purposedescribed.

HUGO GUENTHER.

Witnesses GEo. W. MABEE, T. B. MOSHER.

